Do you speak about JW on dates?

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

Run away!

[Edmilson 2206]

All I want is a companion with whom I can talk about the minutia of unreleased music and the smallest differences between film versions and album versions.

[Bespin 4679]

2 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

All I want is a companion with whom I can talk about the minutia of unreleased music and the smallest differences between film versions and album versions.

 

Buy a dog!

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

A hot dog!

[Edmilson 2206]

I already have two dogs and two cats, and none of them know about Williams. 

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

I guess they've at least heard his music.

[Bespin 4679]

My cat loves movie music!

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

On 10/27/2020 at 1:14 PM, Alex said:

My now wife didn’t even know who he was when we first met 😔. That should have been a red flag right there!

 

But did she know about William Ross?

[Alex 1904]

2 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

But did she know about William Ross?

Oh yes, definitely. Our first argument was about how much of CoS he actually wrote. She maintains to this day that WR composed it all.

[Bespin 4679]

16 minutes ago, Alex said:

She maintains to this day that WR composed it all.

 

I'm sure it can serve as a divorce reason.

[Hedji 275]

3 hours ago, Edmilson said:

All I want is a companion with whom I can talk about the minutia of unreleased music and the smallest differences between film versions and album versions.

 

I have that.  I'm just not sure after this many decades if she listens.

[karelm 1965]

Um, I take dates to JW concerts.  Does that count?

[KK 2999]

On 10/27/2020 at 6:31 PM, Nick Parker said:

I hooked up with a girl once two years ago because I overheard a conversation next to me about The Burbs, and tipsily butted in about how great Jerry Goldsmith was.

 

I also got a date four years ago when I was waiting for a flight to DC and saw a girl reading Ready Player One (reading it for the high school class she taught I discovered). I walked over to her and said, "Hey did you know Steven Spielberg and John Williams are making that into a movie?" No hook up or anything, but we ended up kissing in front of the White House.

 

Moral of the story, Williams and Goldsmith, good wingmen!

 

Powell was my wingman. My first girlfriend was feeling out the HTTYD theme on the piano when I spotted it, pointed it out and we became inseparable for 2 years or so.

 

She was a massive Giacchino fan though. Perhaps I should have seen the signs of doom...

[Marian Schedenig 3602]

On 10/27/2020 at 2:57 PM, Thor said:

In the basement, of course.

 

That's a very Austrian thing to say.

[Bayesian 701]

On 10/27/2020 at 3:10 PM, Alex said:

You’d be surprised... usually when I speak to people they’ll mention HZ and then I’ll say “What about JW?” and they’ll give me a blank look and I’ll say “Star Wars... Harry Potter”, and they’ll be like “Oh yeah, I didn’t know his name”.

I suppose that’s marginally better than getting the “I thought he was dead” reply. Which has happened with me at least twice that I can recall.

[Nick Parker 2975]

19 hours ago, KK said:

 

Powell was my wingman. My first girlfriend was feeling out the HTTYD theme on the piano when I spotted it, pointed it out and we became inseparable for 2 years or so.

 

She was a massive Giacchino fan though...perhaps I should have seen the signs of doom...

 

There's a simple poem my great grandmother would always tell me:

 

Goldsmith and his ponytail gets you some tail

Williams and his turtleneck gets you some hickies

Giacchino and--you like Giacchino?You gotta go. ...But hey maybe first we can have us a quickie?

[Biodome 347]

"I like film music as well, especially John Williams."

 

"Who's John Williams?"

 

"He wrote the music to Star Wars."

 

"Oh, I don't watch Star Wars, so I wouldn't know."

 

Never saw her again.

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

Good for you!

[Ollie 788]

I use the same rule I would for anything in my life. As you get closer to someone you start to open up about things. But if I feel there’s nothing there as far as continuing a relationship,  then I’m not going to talk about my personal life too much.

 

Of course I haven’t dated in 20 years, I’m not allowed to.

 

 

13 hours ago, KK said:

 

Powell was my wingman. My first girlfriend was feeling out the HTTYD theme on the piano when I spotted it, pointed it out and we became inseparable for 2 years or so.

 

She was a massive Giacchino fan though. Perhaps I should have seen the signs of doom...

 
 

Pity, you should have kept her. My significant other was quite impressed with him when she met him.

[Miguel Andrade 813]

Of course I did. With my better half, she was already aware of my "addiction" long before we started dating. But then again, most people I know are aware of my love for John Williams' music so the topic comes up naturally. 

[Henry Sítrónu 305]

reminds me: I've once dated two guys for a few weeks. One of them, a jazz musician (!), didn't know Gershwin's Rhapsody in blue. That kind of help me making a decision. 

[Jay 20316]

I don't know what that is >shrug<

[Sibelius6 985]

I'm having now third marriage, she kind of like JW but maybe more like a SW fan!! 🤔🤔🤔 I have to check that out before moving forward. 

[Unlucky Bastard 7746]

I was chatting with an NY-based Trinidadian babe a few months ago who had the biggest SW junk collection I've ever seen (even covered in SW tattoos), so when I decided to show her my SW soundtracks, she found it bewildering why anyone would ever want to hear that music on its own, let alone on a "CD". I mean... didn't she like SW? That was really weird.

[Tom 1637]

I read the title of this as "Do you speak to JW on dates."  Make of that what you will.  

[King Mark 2694]

My advise. Don't talk about it on dates . Likely the person you like will think your a weirdo.

 

Wait till they see your c.d. collection or something then mention it casually

[Smeltington 834]

9 hours ago, King Mark said:

Likely the person you like will think your a weirdo.

 

Don't want them to FIND OUT I'm a weirdo, prematurely!  

[King Mark 2694]

We need a new movement to help us not get discriminated on dates.

Film Score Geek Lives Matter

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

We don't have much lives to speak of though.

 

On 11/3/2020 at 12:11 AM, theBT said:

I'm having now third marriage, she kind of like JW but maybe more like a SW fan!! 🤔🤔🤔 I have to check that out before moving forward. 

 

Before moving forward? You're already married!

 

On 11/2/2020 at 11:19 PM, Jay said:

I don't know what that is >shrug<

 

Don't know what what is? Decisions? Jazz? Gershwin?

[Unlucky Bastard 7746]

On 11/5/2020 at 3:00 PM, King Mark said:

My advise. Don't talk about it on dates . Likely the person you like will think your a weirdo.

 

Well what good is she if you feel you have to conceal your taste in music or anything else you enjoy?

 

Some of you blokes here think women are all a bunch of philistines.

[QuartalHarmony 55]

On 10/31/2020 at 1:11 AM, Bayesian said:

I suppose that’s marginally better than getting the “I thought he was dead” reply. Which has happened with me at least twice that I can recall.

You could be misinterpreting. Maybe they just misunderstood that Schindler's List anecdote. 

 

Mark

[Brando 38]

My now wife used to listen to “A New Hope and End Credits” years ago when she was younger(12-14ish I think)to help her fall asleep at night. She also used to be able to play the piano and she liked to play “Across the Stars”. Now when I’m showering I listen to my “Sanskrit Sacrifice” edit I made when I’m showering and she hates it. She says it’s “scary music” and I reply with “it is incredible that these are people using their vocal cords to create something so terrifyingly amazing.”

[gkgyver 1630]

Isn't it obvious that mentioning a love for film music during a conversation flowing naturally into musical preferences is normal? While bringing up your hopes for a complete Star Wars Anthology 21 CD Box Set after she asks about your future plans might be awkward? 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6467]

It's very gay, so if that's your thing, by all means.

[Unlucky Bastard 7746]

Is that what gay guys talk about on dates?

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6467]

Bad dates

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

2 hours ago, Brando said:

My now wife used to listen to “A New Hope and End Credits” years ago when she was younger(12-14ish I think)to help her fall asleep at night. She also used to be able to play the piano and she liked to play “Across the Stars”. Now when I’m showering I listen to my “Sanskrit Sacrifice” edit I made when I’m showering and she hates it. She says it’s “scary music” and I reply with “it is incredible that these are people using their vocal cords to create something so terrifyingly amazing.”

 

So now you basically hate each others guts?

 

On 10/27/2020 at 2:37 PM, Smeltington said:

The last person I dated had, miraculously, already seen JW live! Ugh she was a keeper wasn't she. Why am I just realizing this now.

 

Have you called her now?

[Smeltington 834]

8 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Have you called her now?

 

Yes, but it didn't help. I'm going to focus on meeting someone new at one of the John Williams concerts this year. I plan on looking around to see which cute girls aren't laughing when he tells the Schindler story, because if someone isn't surprised to hear the punchline of that story, that's the mark of a true JWFan.

[Brando 38]

10 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

So now you basically hate each others guts?

 

 

Have you called her now?

No no, haha. I love her to death, but when I play that specific cue she gets, in a funny way(to me, at least), annoyed.

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

Try whispering it to her while going to sleep.

[Unlucky Bastard 7746]

I wanna meet a good lookin sort who likes puttin on the record player and jammin to some Johnny Williams

 

Any nice lookin sheilas here who wanna find me private ryan?

[Brando 38]

1 hour ago, Jurassic Shark said:

Try whispering it to her while going to sleep.

Two steps ahead of you. Sometimes I’ll be doing random stuff around the apartment and chanting “korah, korah...” and she’ll be like “stop it”😂

[Naïve Old Fart 5092]

On 10/27/2020 at 1:47 PM, Jurassic Shark said:

It's a date. Ya eat 'em 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6467]

12 hours ago, Unlucky Bastard said:

I wanna meet a good lookin sort who likes puttin on the record player and jammin to some Johnny Williams

 

Any nice lookin sheilas here who wanna find me private ryan?

 

Good luck!

[Unlucky Bastard 7746]

Hehe

[bruce marshall 765]

I usually speak about Jay.

[Jurassic Shark 6985]

1 hour ago, bruce marshall said:

I usually speak about Jay.

 

Isn't it a bit weird to speak about your date on the date?

[Unlucky Bastard 7746]

He jaytes him.